Utforsking av Norges flagg: Elvebakken Skole

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3 Workshop at Elvebakken Skole. 3 classes, 69 kids.

The first workshops for kids where arranged during spring 2014 in Oslo and continued in the fall after receiving a support by the Norwegian Art Council for visiting 8 other cities in the whole country.

An important part of the project is the workshops for 6th graders based in the country’s flag, and how this can be explored through the design in relation to openness, composition, visibility, tolerance and identity.

The workshop is based on several tasks. Explorations in ideas about the country and people’s identity and translating them to colours after a democratic selection process. But also individual tasks related to identity and colours. During the process, each participant can finish with a concrete proposal for their own flag made with a collage after exploring with sketches. This could be a new or one of the several official flags currently in use in the Kingdom. The proposed flags were photographed while the participants talk about concepts behind.

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Utforsking av Norges flagg

Explorations in the Norwegian Flagg

The first flag related to Norway dates back to the monarch periods of the XIV century. Since then, different flags saw the sky in a process which carried out several debates, publications and proposals, including a green and grey one promoted by Christian Frederik in 1814, just a few months before the inclusion of an article in the second constitution expressing that Norway should have its own flag determined by law. The flag was selected in 1821, but its complete adoption in land and all seas wasn’t until the beginning of the next century, in which it was also banned during the German occupation of Norway. After those years, the use of the flag has grown exponentially as well as immigration. According to SSB, in 2016 more than 12% of the total population is currently member of religious and life stance communities outside the Church of Norway.
As flags, people and lands never stand still, and thus not history.
From its origins in 2012 and as a reaction to the atrocious attacks of the previous year, antipodes café began a deep study in the history of Norway and exploring in the main national symbol, creating in this way an art project about identity, pluralism and democracy, based in:
a. workshops for kids
b. urban intervention
c. exhibitions
d. open dialog in media
e a website
f. digital platform for explorations
g. artworks
h. a publication